hygiene

hygiene

See also: Hygiene, hygiène, and hygiëne

English

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hī'jēn, hījēn', IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒiːn/, /haɪˈd͡ʒiːn/[1]

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Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.

   Hygiene is an important consideration in places where food is prepared.

3. Cleanliness.

   They have poor personal hygiene.

4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

• feminine hygiene
• hygienic
• hygienically
• hygienics
• hygienist
• hyperhygienist
• mental hygiene
• oral hygiene
• personal hygiene
• social hygiene
• sleep hygiene

Translations

science of health

Arabic: عِلْم الصِّحَّة‎ m (ʿilm aṣ-ṣiḥḥa), عِلْم حِفْظ الصِّحَّة‎ m (ʿilm ḥifẓ aṣ-ṣiḥḥa) Chinese: Mandarin: 衛生學／卫生学 (zh) (wèishēngxué) Japanese: 衛生学 (ja) (えいせいがく, eiseigaku) Korean: 위생학(衛生學) (ko) (wisaenghak) Russian: гигие́на (ru) (gigijéna) Thai: สุขศึกษา (th) (sùk-kà-sʉ̀k-sǎa)

conditions and practices that promote and preserve health

Afrikaans: higiëne Albanian: higjienë (sq) f Arabic: نَظَافَة‎ f (naẓāfa), حِفْظ الصِّحَّة‎ m (ḥifẓ aṣ-ṣiḥḥa) Armenian: հիգիենա (hy) (higiena) Asturian: hixene f Azerbaijani: gigiyena (az) Belarusian: гігіе́на f (hihijéna) Bengali: স্বাস্থ্যবিধি (sẇasthẏbidhi), স্বাস্থ্যবিজ্ঞান (sẇasthẏbigẏan) Bulgarian: хигие́на (bg) f (higiéna) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: higiene (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 衛生／卫生 (zh) (wèishēng) Czech: hygiena (cs) f Danish: hygiejne (da) c Dutch: hygiëne (nl) f Esperanto: higieno Estonian: hügieen Finnish: hygienia (fi) French: hygiène (fr) f Galician: hixiene f Georgian: ჰიგიენა (higiena) German: Hygiene (de) f Greek: υγιεινή (el) f (ygieiní) Gujarati: સ્વચ્છતા (svacchatā) Hebrew: גֵהוּת‎ f (gehút), הִיגְיֶנָה \\ היגיינה‎ f (higyéna) Hindi: स्वच्छता (hi) m (svacchatā) Hungarian: higiénia (hu) Icelandic: hreinlæti (is) n Indonesian: kebersihan (id) Irish: sláinteachas m Italian: igiene (it) f, salubrità f Japanese: 衛生 (ja) (えいせい, eisei) Kazakh: гигиена (gigiena) Khmer: អនាម័យ (ʼaʼnaamay) Korean: 위생(衛生) (ko) (wisaeng) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: hîjyen (ku) Kyrgyz: гигиена (ky) (gigiyena) Lao: ອະນາໄມ (ʼa nā mai) Latvian: higiēna f Lithuanian: higiena f Macedonian: хигие́на f (higiéna) Malay: kebersihan, higin Malayalam: ശുചി (ml) (śuci), ശുചിതപരിപാലനം (śucitaparipālanaṃ) Mongolian: Cyrillic: эрүүл ахуй (erüül axuj) Norwegian: Bokmål: hygiene (no) m Nynorsk: hygiene m Occitan: igièna (oc) f Pashto: حفظ الصحه‎ (ps) f (hefz ol-seha) Persian: بهداشت‎ (fa) (behdâšt), حفظ الصحه‎ (hefz ol-seha) (Dari) Polish: higiena (pl) f Portuguese: higiene (pt) f Romanian: igienă (ro) f Russian: гигие́на (ru) f (gigijéna) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хигије́на f Roman: higijéna (sh) f Sinhalese: ස්වස්ථතාව (swasthatāwa) Slovak: hygiena (sk) f Slovene: higiena f Spanish: higiene (es) f Swedish: hygien (sv) c Tagalog: palalusugan Tajik: гигиена (gigiyena), беҳдошт (behdošt) Tatar: гигиена (gigiyena) Thai: สุขลักษณะ (sùk-lák-sà-nà), อนามัย (th) (à-naa-mai) Turkish: hijyen (tr) Turkmen: gigiýena Ukrainian: гігіє́на f (hihijéna) Urdu: حِفْظانِ صِحَت‎ (ur) (hifzān-e sehat) Uyghur: تازىلىق‎ (taziliq) Uzbek: gigiyena (uz) Vietnamese: vệ sinh (vi) (衛生) Yiddish: היגיענע‎ f (higyene)

Further reading

• hygiene in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• hygiene in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

References

1. “hygiene”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk